When I became a medical educator, I experienced attending to medical students’ professionalism lapses as a demanding and time-consuming task. I had never been taught how to respond to these lapses, and the literature did not provide clear guidelines. To find out how colleagues in the medical education field handled this issue, my colleagues and …
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To Pull Back the Curtain on Shame in Medical Education, I Had to Start With Myself
The moment I made the error—an unfathomable vaginal laceration caused by my hands during the vacuum-assisted delivery—it felt as if a massive floodlight, centered right over my head, descended on me. All eyes in the room, aghast at my error and its outcome, bore straight through me. A rush of anxiety and fear flushed down …
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Learning to Learn as a Medical Student
For an instructor’s perspective on these study strategies, check out the companion post by Alyssa B. Smith’s sister Dr. Megan A. Sumeracki. By: Alyssa B. Smith, third-year medical student, Chicago Medical School I began at Chicago Medical School believing the notion that my study methods had gotten me into medical school, so they could therefore …
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#WinterWishList Contest Rules Are you a medical trainee? Have you ever wished that you could have your own subscription to Academic Medicine? Is Academic Medicine on your #WinterWishList? Tweet us, using @AcadMedJournal and #WinterWishList, to let us know what you like best about the journal or why you want to win a subscription for a …
Save the Date: Ask-the-Editor Twitter Chat
Are you curious about academic medicine scholarship? Why not chat with Academic Medicine’s editor-in-chief? Join our Ask-the-Editor Twitter chat on Tuesday, June 13th, from 2-3PM (ET). Go ahead and ask hard questions—about peer review, about the world of academic medicine, or about conducting and reviewing scholarship. Our Editor-in-Chief, David P. Sklar, MD, is prepared to …
What Does Tolerance for Ambiguity Look Like?
By: Marie Caulfield, PhD, manager of data operations and services, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC Last year my daughter was admitted to a teaching hospital with a kidney infection. The medical student and residents on her treatment team recommended an MRI to rule out a possible anatomical cause. Dr. R., the attending physician, …
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The Last Puzzle Piece
By: Vera P. Luther, MD, assistant professor, Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest University School of Medicine My family has a tradition of working together on jigsaw puzzles during holidays and summer vacations. It’s a fun activity that involves teamwork. We enjoy the discovery of interesting shapes and making connections between pieces and groups, …